Super Best Audio Friends

  1. Lobby

    General sub-forum area. New members must read the stickied posts in the Tales from the Bully Pulpit sub-forum before posting.

    1. Tales from the Bully Pulpit

      Must read stuff and important announcements.
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      1. How to Win Friends and Influence People

      2. Ambiophonics

      Latest: Donations to SuperBAF Mike_WI Jan 23, 2019 at 9:34 AM
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    2. General Audio Discussion

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      1. Advice Threads

      2. Leaderboard, Overboard, and Deals

      Latest: Used Deals Thread lcmusiclover Jan 23, 2019 at 6:50 PM
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    3. Music and Recordings

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      1. Music and Recordings (vinyl , 8-track, etc.)

      Latest: What are you listening to right now? (2nd Part) Wilson Jan 23, 2019 at 6:26 PM
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    4. The Meeting Place

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      Latest: Denver Meet, Feb 16 AllanMarcus Jan 23, 2019 at 4:50 PM
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    5. Audio Science

      Discussion of blind testing, psychoacoustics, and measurement techniques. Also, preliminary, research, and exploratory measurements should generally be posted here unless the results of your measurement rigs have been established and well known. This is to prevent confusion and difficulty in comparing one measurement with another. Excessive insistence on only very difficult to implement double blind testing results in an automatic one week ban or worse.
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      1. Blind Testing and Psychoacoustics

      2. Measurement Techniques Discussion

      Latest: Pre and Post Effin Ringing and shit like that ultrabike Jan 22, 2019 at 8:18 AM
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    6. All Points Bulletin / Be on the Look Out

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      Latest: APB: CA Atlas - @warrior Vansen Oct 29, 2018
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  2. Personal Audio Gear Discussion

    Personal audio gear reviews , subjective impressions, thoughts, and questions about gear. Any post with a measurement should go in the measurements section below.

    1. Headphones

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      Latest: ZMF New Headphones: Vérité and Aeolus Hands Jan 23, 2019 at 8:56 PM
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    2. Headphone Amplifiers and Combo (DAC/Amp) Units

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      Latest: Monoprice Monolith Liquid Platinum Headphone Amplifier by Alex Cavalli jazztherapist Jan 23, 2019 at 2:44 PM
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    3. IEMs and Portable Gear

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      Latest: Campfire Audio Andromeda Review: Holy Cow, This is a Dream, Awesomesauce! Mithrandir41 Jan 23, 2019 at 3:08 PM
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    4. Modifications and Tweaks

      Mods, tweaks, cables, power conditioning, etc.
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      Latest: The HD800 EQ-ing Thread OJneg Jan 21, 2019 at 12:26 PM
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  3. Source Gear Discussion

    1. Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers

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      Latest: Dangerous Music Convert-2 DAC Review - Stream of Consciousness Hands Jan 23, 2019 at 9:00 PM
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    2. Computer Audiophile: Software, Configs, Tools

      Players, streamers, operating systems, settings, tagging, etc.
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      Latest: Music Streaming Services Uri Cohen Jan 23, 2019 at 6:26 PM
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    3. Vinyl Nutjob World: Turntable and Related Gear

      Anything related to vinyl playback, turntables, cartridges, phonostages, setup, discussions, measurements, etc.
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      Latest: Schiit Sol Turntable Sneak-Peak OJneg Jan 17, 2019 at 11:08 AM
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  4. Two Channel Gear Discussion

    1. Preamps

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      Latest: Schiit Freya Preamp Review (Episodic) Kernel Kurtz Jan 23, 2019 at 2:42 PM
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    2. Power Amps

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      Latest: AliExpress / eBay JL Hood 1969 Class A Amp OJneg Jan 22, 2019 at 6:32 PM
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    3. Speakers

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      Latest: ATC Monitors - 2x2-way plus sub or 2 larger? Psalmanazar Jan 23, 2019 at 8:05 PM
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  5. Measurements (plus subjective impressions)

    Measurements with subjective impressions. Hands, Marv, Ultrabike, AtomicBob, Sorrodje, and cskippy. Unless your measurements have been sanctioned, please post them in the "Audio Science" sub-forum above. To is to prevent confusion as different measurement setups will have different results. Note that Hands' coupler has pinna, which will bump up the 2-3.5kHz region a little bit.

    1. Headphone Measurements

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      Latest: Verum Audio - Exciting high performance DIY planar Thad E Ginathom Jan 23, 2019 at 2:23 PM
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    2. IEM Measurements

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      1. IEM Measurements - La Cenric's IEM Playhouse

      Latest: InEar ProPhile 8 Measurements and Review (Stream of Consciousness) Nordpol Anton Dec 28, 2018
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    3. Headphone Amplifier Measurements

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      Latest: O2 Measurements & Review ultrabike Jan 12, 2019
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    4. Source Measurements

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      Latest: Modi 2U and D30 DAC: Deconstructing Amir's Hack Job Part II Pillars Dec 13, 2018
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    5. Portable and Other Gear Measurements

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      Latest: USB cable shield resistance technical measurements atomicbob Jan 16, 2019
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    6. Measurement Setups, Systems, and Standards

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      Latest: New portable headphone measuring setup La Cenric Dec 16, 2018
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  6. SuperBAF Special Sub-Forums

    Some of these sub-forums may be restricted to Friends or Contributors. Of course if you can't see it, then it doesn't exist.

    1. EU Forum

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      Latest: Presumably this will help with the Schiit EU dealers clusterfuck bixby Jan 1, 2019
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    2. Loaner Programs

      Loaner program logistics only. Impressions should be in their respective gear category subforums.
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      1. Closed Loaners

      2. Loaner Requests

      Latest: Loaner: Soekris dac1421 Jinxy245 Jan 23, 2019 at 8:29 PM
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    3. SBAF Blogs

      Please don't start a random blog in this sub-forum. This sub-forum is reserved for VIPs.
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      Latest: Merv's Politically Incorrect Audio Blog purr1n Dec 28, 2018
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    4. DIY

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      Latest: Pass Labs New DIY "WHAMMY" Headphone Amp fraggler Jan 23, 2019 at 10:41 AM
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    5. For Sale

      HF is probably a better place to reach people for selling most stuff. We reach the same kinds of people as HF, but HF gets 7,000,000 sessions and 35,000,000 pageviews per month. We are about 1000 times smaller and the members here are much more selective in what they purchase.
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      1. Closed (Archived) Sales

      2. Buyer and Seller Feedback (Negative)

      Latest: FS: Gear purge (RME ADI-2 DAC, Audeze LCD2C, Stax SRS-2170, etc) Vtory Jan 23, 2019 at 2:08 PM
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  7. Non-Audio Stuff

    1. Random Thoughts

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      1. City Guides

      2. Birthdays

      3. Health

      Latest: The NFL Football thread. Elnrik Jan 22, 2019 at 5:21 PM
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    2. Outdoor World

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      Latest: Winter Sports World spwath Jan 20, 2019 at 5:34 PM
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    3. Geek Cave: Computers, Tablets, HT, Phones, Games

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      1. Lego and Other Building Bricks

      2. Clash of Clans

      Latest: Star Wars Imperial Landing Craft LEGO set #75221 Merrick Jan 20, 2019 at 11:17 PM
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    4. Food and Drink

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      Latest: Beer! Uri Cohen Jan 21, 2019 at 5:23 AM
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    5. Musicians and Instruments

      SHow off your musical instruments and post what instruments you have and your musical accomplishments! Even if you play an instrument just as a hobby, please post your pics and descriptions!
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      Latest: The music we make slankoe Dec 4, 2018
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    6. Photography and Cameras

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      Latest: Fuji XT2 XT20 questions and advice? Syzygy Jan 18, 2019 at 8:17 AM
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    7. Cars, Motorcycles, Boats, Airplanes Talk

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      Latest: General Auto Chat Uri Cohen Jan 20, 2019 at 1:22 PM
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  8. Industry Sub-Forums

    1. Product Announcements

      MoTs: Please introduce yourselves first before posting.
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      Latest: Geek Wave final(?) development discussion - aka "please lord let it ship!" mscott58 Jan 23, 2019 at 2:11 PM
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    2. Beezar

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      Latest: Beezar Audio/ECP Audio History TomB Jan 23, 2019 at 4:51 AM
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    3. Schiit

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      Latest: The Mike Moffat (#2 at Schiit) Blog EeePee Jan 7, 2019
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    4. The Source Audio Video Design Group (TSAV)

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      Latest: Focal Clear Special! Limited time while supplies last! pure5152 Jan 23, 2019 at 7:10 PM
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    5. Eddie Current

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      Latest: EC Aficionado (was: The Studio Jr.) purr1n Jan 8, 2019
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